User:Shaggorama/Wikiproject TCM

Welcome to WikiProject Traditional Chinese Medicine. This collaboration is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage and organization of Traditional Chinese Medicine topics. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goals

 * Advocate for the original philosophy and theory behind traditional chinese medicine on wikipedia
 * Maintain NPOV in articles within scope
 * Minimize presentation of westernized views of traditional chinese medical philosophy (as has been perpetuated by the syncretism of New Agism and also by well-intentioned World Health Organizaiton standardization) in place of well-cited interpretation.
 * Expand the wisdom base of the topic to represent the completeness of the system, albeit significant incomensurability with western medicine.
 * Maintain quality of articles and topics within scope
 * Ensure language used in introductory articles permits sufficient access to topic to the uninitiated
 * Ensure all jargon is explained in a sufficiently easy to find (linked?) fashion.
 * Ensure all TCM styles and traditions represented on wikipedia are notable and not disguised advertisements for fringe practices or quackery.

Scope

 * Chinese herbology
 * Chinese Astrology
 * Chinese Energy practices (i.e. qi gong, tai chi, ba gua, feng shui, etc.)
 * Chinese internal martial arts
 * Theory/Pertinent Chinese philosophy (such as yin-yang, five elements, ba gua, taosim)
 * TCM techniques (accupuncture, moxibustion, tui na)
 * TCM literature
 * Prominent historical figures, per WP:NB
 * Significant TCM institutions and foundations with verifiable notability, per WP:NB

Open tasks

 * Expand Zang Fu viscera article and sub articles

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * 1) Shaggorama (talk) - Theory, Qi Gong, de-syncretization/de-westernization of topics swarmed by new-agers (such as inclusion of discussion of chakras, a hindu concept that was not adopted by the chinese in place of the more detailed accupoint theory)

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Traditional Chinese Medicine-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Review and assessment

 * Peer review
 * Assessment
 * Assessment

Categories

 * Category:WikiProject Traditional Chinese Medicine

-CAM -Martial arts (kung fu?)